Not so graceful

Today at work, I was heading back from my boss's office and in an effort to maximize my time, I hurried along the highly polished floor right in front of my office area when one leg began to slide. Then the next one went, then the hallway was spinning as I was gaining a new perspective on my surroundings.

WIPEOUT!

It wasn't pretty, and I'll be in pants for a week or so until the enormous bruise on my leg subsides.

Happy humpday!

Oh ... My ... Virgin Scribe!

So, I've started my journey on listening to books on CD. I've started with JR Ward's Lover Avenged. This book has captured my attention. I failed with the twilight series, but YEOWZA'S ... this is somewhere between Twilight and Jackie Collins. WOW. Seriously, I had to crank the AC driving home this afternoon and it had nothing to do with the humidex!

Lost in the rainforest?

So Chapters didn't have my book. They had a pretty impressive selection on the rest of the Author's books, but not the one I was looking for. I love my technology. I immediately sent an email to hubby telling him to order it from Amazon.

That was Monday.

This is Wednesday and they haven't even given us notification that the book has shipped.

WTF?

Seriously, does the order get shipped along the river? In my usual impatient way, I went on to Kobo to read the first chapter for free. It's a beautiful book and I'm eager to get my paws on it. But nothing. Grrrrrrrr .....

Joining a book club

Ok, while I've previously assumed (and commented) that book clubs are for little old ladies with knitting and lots of cats.... time to eat your words bella!

I've begun hanging out (virtually) with a pretty diverse and dynamic group of women. I've had a group of working mother friends for almost 5 years, and while this new group (smaller about 15 of us) came from the same website as my working mother friends, it's from a debaters board, so it's a pretty high caliber of women. I've begun playing scrabble on line with a couple of them, I've rediscovered my desire to blog, and I've joined a book club.

This month we're reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and I'm still not entirely sure what the book is about. A few of the DA members have commented that they were assigned to read it in school, somehow I doubt it's much like Farley Mowatt and the Call of the Wild, but these are some of the American Mom's so it's an opportunity to be exposed to something I never have before.

Good times ahead, I'm heading out shortly to go to Chapters to see if they have it. Wish me luck, it'll be the first book in a while that doesn't rhyme, have pop up characters or more pictures than words!

Because working with Dilbert would be a HUGE improvement

http://rantfromacube.blogspot.com/

In search of another blog of mine, I came across this one. Ahhhh good times!

Guilted into blogging

Ok, really not so much, but since I'm now following some of my favourite DA mom's blogs I felt I needed update mine.

So, yesterday afternoon I met two different men in a hotel ....

Ok, you can pick your jaw up off the floor now!

I had a job interview with a retailer. One of the hotels in Toronto (The Hyatt on King) rents out some of their floors to offices. The ironic thing was that I stayed at this hotel in March with Russ when we went to the Symphony (holy crap that was only two posts ago). I met with the HR manager and the person to whom I'd be reporting.

::shrugs:: I've done this a lot of times (interviewing not meeting men in hotels) so I don't tend to get wound up until there's an offer (and a GREAT one) in front of me.

The commute would SUCK, but I'm eager to get back into retail, so I'm game. Of course, I always (stupidly) somehow mention I have children, so I'll likely pay the "mommy penalty".

Reason # 6,342 why ...

I will never make it as a SAHM (Stay At Home Mom). Poor women don't get a sick day! I'm off today with strep with the youngest. He's doing awesome, I feel like death.